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<h4 class="subsection">6.1.1 Intrinsic Types</h4>
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<p>In order to ensure that exactly the same variable type and kind is used
in C and Fortran, you should use the named constants for kind parameters
that are defined in the <code>ISO_C_BINDING</code> intrinsic module.
That module contains named constants of character type representing
the escaped special characters in C, such as newline.
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<p>For logical types, please note that the Fortran standard only guarantees
interoperability between C99&rsquo;s <code>_Bool</code> and Fortran&rsquo;s <code>C_Bool</code>-kind
logicals and C99 defines that <code>true</code> has the value 1 and <code>false</code>
the value 0.  Using any other integer value with GNU Fortran&rsquo;s <code>LOGICAL</code>
(with any kind parameter) gives an undefined result.  (Passing other integer
values than 0 and 1 to GCC&rsquo;s <code>_Bool</code> is also undefined, unless the
integer is explicitly or implicitly casted to <code>_Bool</code>.)
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